This Thursday was the Agile Finland Spring Seminar 2009. In my opinion it was once again a nice event with two presentations and networking with good food and some wine. The first presenter was my friend Markus Hjort talking about “Lessons learned in test automation”. In his talk Markus gave 10 tips from his own [...]

This week I was for the first time officially a co-trainer on a Certified ScrumMaster course. Great thanks to Jim Coplien for allowing me to teach together with him. Here is a picture of the class: jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout(‘loadTwitter_17()’,1000);window.setTimeout(‘loadLinkedin_17()’,1000);window.setTimeout(‘loadFBShare_17()’,1000); }); function loadTwitter_17(){ jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(‘.dd-twitter-17′).remove();$.getScript(‘http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’); }); } function loadLinkedin_17(){ jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(‘.dd-linkedin-17′).remove();$.getScript(‘http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js’); }); } function [...]

Recently I learned about Jeff Patton’s Story Mapping technique for slicing a product backlog. The problem with backlog management is that we want organize in such a way that we can deliver a minimum viable product as fast as possible. This can be quite difficult with a typical flat backlog of independent stories etc. The [...]

I’ve started to follow Marko Taipale’s blog recently and today he had a post about the “Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship”. Like him I too signed it. In my opinion craftsmanship and professionalism are very important things that most of the software industry seems to lack. A couple of years back I was at the JAOO [...]